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Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 4:48 pm
by Tristan
Oh, I was guessing SG-1 clone as well but you guys are probably right.
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 6:38 pm
by jrmy
frigid midget wrote:If it weren't so big and packed with features I don't really care for, I'd personally go with the EHX Pog2. Best souding swell effect I heard, as far as I can tell from the online demos.
Yeah, I've got a POG2 and love it, but again, too big for the space I've got and too many other features I'd rather be using. Hmmmmm...
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 3:10 am
by K2000
jrmy wrote:Innnnnnnnnteresting. I also realize that I hadn't been fully specifying my need (probably because I've never given much thought to swell pedals before). I'd be looking for something that can go really slow, to fade in an oscillation/drone...
I dunno if these Slow Gear type pedals will work for you, if you're using drones (there's no attack to modify, with a drone) unless you are turning the drone on and off more than once. Once the drone is running, the Slow Gear pedals don't do anything (except maybe taper your release). Wouldn't a sequencer do that too, and maybe be more powerful for other uses too?
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 3:50 am
by goroth
I think all of the pedals mentioned would have a max swell time of around a second or less.
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:25 am
by jrmy
goroth wrote:I think all of the pedals mentioned would have a max swell time of around a second or less.
Yup, I'm getting that sense too. I may be barking up the wrong tree here. Ah well.
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:27 am
by goroth
What's the max time on the tremolessence? Maybe the slowest setting, sine wave, with the ramp up function?
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:31 am
by jrmy
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:46 am
by Tristan
Ah, right, good thinking goroth!
Or the Zvex Loop Gate maybe?
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 2:09 pm
by Msstringthing
doesn't fit ANY of the criteria bug the WP-20G (and the VG series) had poly- swell
really nice if you play fingerstyle
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 2:11 pm
by Msstringthing
question
One thing I don't like about a lot of the "slow gear" type swell FX(which are basically modified noise gates)
is no pluck detection.
ideally - you'd look at the transients and reset the swell on pluck (a big tansient spike)
I'm not sure if you can link the Rocktron prophesy up to a swell
Re: Best attack/decay swell effect bang for the buck?
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 2:12 pm
by Msstringthing
I hate to say it, but best bang for $ is probably...
b..be...behr
